“This does not feel normal.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Were our grandparents like this too, and we were just too young to notice it?”
It’s A LOT.
But Reddit useru/StyrkeSkalVandrerecently added something else to the growing list.
And the responses have been very illuminating.
Here are the full details: “My parents are each in their midlate 70’s.
Ten years ago, they had friends: they would throw dinner parties that 46 other couples would attend.
They would be invited to similar parties thrown by their friends.
“But now, they have no friends.
I mean that literally.
My dad did the same thing to hisbest frienda few years ago.”
This does not feel normal.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Were our grandparents like this too, and we were just too young to notice it?”
It seems to hit in the late 50s.
It’s truly a nightmare."
Now they don’t.
u/Various-Cranberry709
“I legit said this to my dad the last time I was at their house.
u/crochetawayhpff
“My Silent Gen mom gets meaner and more passive-aggressive by the day.
Shes angry, and social media keeps her raging, afraid, and marinating in conspiracy theories.
I rue the day I ever got her an iPad and set up a Facebook account.
Its utterly tragic.”
“I believe there are tons of issues, but it’s more than ‘Boomers being fools.’
Obviously some people were always mean, but had more social inhibition.
Some of this is mental decline.
On top of untreated anxiety, depression, etc.
then all the lead, and all the rage bait media.”
u/shhh_its_me
“I think the untreated anxiety and depression is a HUGE factor here.
The question that remains is, what, if anything, can be done about this?
And lately, millennials and Gen Z seem to have no issuegoing no-contactwith parents who disrespect them.
So, that’s also something to consider.
